My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project
Oh, the emotional rollercoaster you’ll take. These are the slides and notes from my talk for WordCamp Europe 2016.
presentations
#wcnyc: A Journey To The Center Of WP-CLI
The talk went great! I improved my wp present command to do some fancier Markdown parsing, and it worked out quite well. Here’s the markdown file if you’d like to skim through. Although I didn’t finish my slides until this morning, I did a couple of things I’ll always be doing going forward: Produce a list […]
#phppdx: WordPress as an Application Platform
Last night, I presented to ~25-30 people at the PDX PHP meetup on “WordPress as an Application Platform”. Even though I’m no longer with Human Made, I think what they’ve done with WP Remote (and Happytables) is the bleeding edge and worthy of sharing. Ultimately, the point I wanted to get across is two-fold: Many […]
Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: Doing It Wrong
Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: Doing It Wrong. “If you don’t let forks happen, then you run into a really nasty problem I like to call governance orgy.”
#pdxwp: Code Review Takes Two
We did a second pass at our code review meetup — last night turned out much better than the first. The high point for me: most of the “presentation” was, in fact, discussion. The latter proved to be way more valuable for everyone, as most of the twenty people in the room don’t do code review […]
#pdxwp: wp-cli is for WP devs on a deadline
As a part of tonight’s “It’s Tool Time: 4 Tools You Cannot Live Without” meetup, I presented on my beloved wp-cli. wp-cli is a command line interface for WordPress, and a tremendously powerful tool for WordPress developers on a deadline. So powerful, in fact, I wrote my slides as a command 15 minutes before my […]
Webstock: Karen McGrane, Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content
This week I’m at Webstock, a lovely conference in New Zealand. I’m doing my best to write little blog posts about the amazing presentations. Please forgive any typos, etc. If you’re here too, come write a haiku at Automattic’s booth. Karen McGrane has made a career of dragging media companies kicking and screaming onto the internet. […]
Webstock: John Gruber, In Praise of Pac-Man
This week I’m at Webstock, a lovely conference in New Zealand. I’m doing my best to write little blog posts about the amazing presentations. Please forgive any typos, etc. If you’re here too, come write a haiku at Automattic’s booth. John Gruber, well everyone knows who John Gruber is. If you don’t, please hand in your […]
Webstock: Chris Coyier, The Modern Web Designer’s Workflow
This week I’m at Webstock, a lovely conference in New Zealand. I’m doing my best to write little blog posts about the amazing presentations. Please forgive any typos, etc. If you’re here too, come write a haiku at Automattic’s booth. Chris Coyier is a humorous man. He was also a designer at Wufoo and now does […]
Webstock: Miranda Mulligan, Your Survival is Designed
This week I’m at Webstock, a lovely conference in New Zealand. I’m doing my best to write little blog posts about the amazing presentations. Please forgive any typos, etc. If you’re here too, come write a haiku at Automattic’s booth. Miranda Mulligan (hey, I know her!) helped take the Boston Globe through a responsive redesign, and […]